Winners' haul

Proud prize winners at last week’s Accountancy Age annual awards for excellence staged at the London Hilton Hotel. From left: Denis Waxman, managing director of Hays Accountancy Personnel, which won Recruitment Consultancy of the Year, sponsored by Rada Recruitment Consultants; Robert Sandry, business development manager at Price Waterhouse, which won Big Six Firm of the Year, sponsored by International Factors; Peter Gill, of South Coast Audit, Public Sector Accountant of the Year, sponsored by Hays Accountancy Personnel; Simon Rees and Andy Pollock of Rees Pollock, winners of Small Firm of the Year, sponsored by Guinness Mahon and Guinness Mahon Development Capital; Craig Scarr of Neville Russell, Young Accountant of the Year, sponsored by Harrison Willis; Nick Sealy, chairman of Smith & Williamson, Medium Sized Firm of the Year, sponsored by Griffin Factors; Theo Van Dort, managing director of Megatech, Accounting Software SME System of the Year, sponsored by BASDA; John Coombe, director of finance and information technology at Glaxo Wellcome, winner of Best Report and Accounts, sponsored by Ernst & Young/UK GAAP; Trevor Salomon, marketing director, SAP, winner of Accounting Software Corporate System of the Year, sponsored by BASDA; and Steve Ahearne, BP financial director, Finance Director of the Year, sponsored by CIMA. Absent are Hector, Personality of the Year, sponsored by Lombard NatWest and Sir Anthony Battishill, chairman of the Inland Revenue.